"Stop talking about women who are not British, and they scream on the wall of Longquan every night." Since ancient times, there have been women who refused to let their beards, even if the patriarchal thought was very serious in ancient times, However, there are also excellent women such as Mulan and Wang Zhaojun that have made the world admire. Their deeds lasted for a long time and still passed , and at the same time they have a profound impact on later generations.
In modern times, there was a Chinese woman whose righteous deeds shocked the whole of Europe. There was even a country named an avenue in the center of the city by her name, and the people of the West respectfully called it "Mother", she is Qian Xiuling, a woman from Yixing, Jiangsu. Perhaps the Chinese are not familiar with the name Qian Xiuling, but these three words are familiar to the local people in Belgium.
She is Qian Xiuling
In 1912, Qian Xiuling was born in Yixing, Jiangsu, China. She has an enlightened family style and is a local gentry family. From a young age, his family was in good condition, and he also had a cousin, Qian Zhuolun, who was a lieutenant general of the Nationalist Government. She and her cousin Qian Zhuolun have been in love since their childhood is deeply attached to , Qian Zhuolun also loves Qian Xiuling, a smart little sister.
Although Qian Xiuling's character is not arrogant at all, although the family conditions are good and the family loves, she is low-key and modest, has a wide range of hobbies, and has loved playing basketball since she was a child. As a lover of chemistry, she set her ambitions when she was a teenager. After she finished her studies, she wanted to use her own journal to imitate the motherland and devote her life to the palace of science like Mrs. Curie.
When Qian Xiuling was seventeen years old, she traveled across the oceans to study in Belgium. At this time, Qian Xiuling embraced her scientific dream to become a student of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Leuven in Belgium. not only embraced the chemistry that she loves, but also met her love in this life——Gelixia.
Gelixia is a foreign mixed-race, handsome, he met Qian Xiuling in a class, two outstanding young people attracted each other and admired each other. Soon after, they fell in love with . It is conceivable that transnational relationships were rare in that era, and their love was not even recognized in the eyes of the public. The two not only had to face obstruction from both families, but also had to withstand judgment and pressure from the outside world.
However, even if there are all obstacles, their hands are always tightly held together, love each other sincerely, calmly, and fearlessly ! During her relationship, Qian Xiuling did not waste her studies. She successfully obtained a doctorate when she was 22 years old, breaking the zero breakthrough for Chinese women to obtain a doctorate in Belgium.
After graduating, she married Grischia. After marriage, the couple settled in a remote town in Belgium. The small town of Grischia graduated from medical school opened a private clinic, and Qian Xiuling was in the clinic. As a nurse, the couple sang their husbands with their husbands, and lived a life like to stay away from disputes and celestial couples . For the next sixty years, Qian Xiuling and her husband have remained as loving as ever.
She is the "Virgin Mary" in the eyes of Europeans
After marriage, Qian Xiuling who cares about the motherland originally urgent hope return to her motherland and use her own experience country. After persuading the husband, the couple originally planned to return to China. Whoever thought that the plan could not keep up with the changes, Japan launched a war to pass on the economic crisis in the country.
At this time, the domestic war was tense. Soon after World War II broke out in European countries, Qian Xiuling was unable to return to China and could only stay abroad. In the midst of the conflict, Qian Xiuling was unable to carry out her own scientific research, so her 年少时的梦想 was put on hold.
In 1940, Nazi artillery bombarded Belgium mercilessly, and Belgium soon fell, even Qian Xiuling and her husband lived in remote areasThe small town is not immune, is filled with despair and darkness fettered by war . In the third year after the outbreak of the war, a patriotic young man named Roger in Belgium risked his life to plant a landmine on the railway section where German trains passed and successfully blow up the railway section.
Unfortunately, Roger was arrested by the Germans not long after the incident happened. Roger, who was imprisoned, was in danger of his life. His family sought help everywhere, and his father even went to the king of Belgium at the time, and even the king himself helped Roger intercede with the Germans. However, the brutal German army still made the decision to hang .
Just as everyone mourned for the young warrior and wept, Qian Xiuling stood up and said that she would take Roger home. In everyone's eyes, Qian Xiuling is just a 平平无奇Chinese woman . How can she succeed in things that even their king can't do?
Amidst surprise and doubt, Qian Xiuling led the residents of the town to write a letter of plea. It turned out that when everyone fell into despair , Qian Xiuling discovered that General Alexander, the top administrator sent by the German army to Belgium, had been to China many years ago and had a good relationship with Qian Xiuling’s cousin Qian Zhuolun. friend.
On the eve of her departure from her hometown to go to Belgium, her brother once gave herself a picture and asked Qian Xiuling to take Qian Zhuolun’s copy if she encountered difficulties abroad A picture went to General Alexander and asked him to help himself. Thanks to the brother’s this non-comfortable acquaintance, Qian Xiuling took the photo of her brother and wrote a joint letter with the residents of the town. After all the hardships, she finally met Alexander, a highly powerful Nazi officer at the time. General. After
expressed his intention, no one had expected that General Alexander agreed to the request of this thin Chinese woman. She succeeded in saving a young life from the gallows by her own efforts. Down. Qian Xiuling did what the king of Belgium could not do!
In this way, the news of Qian Xiuling’s successful rescue was spread all over Belgium. For a while, everyone admired this seemingly insignificant Chinese woman’s thin body. contains such great power . Not only that, the families of the victims detained by the Nazis in Belgium at the time came to Qian Xiuling and begged her to save their families.
After receiving help from the kind-hearted Qian Xiuling, with the help of Alexander, she successfully rescued a total of more than 100 people who were detained by the Nazis and faced the death penalty. Because of this, he was loved by countless Belgian people. They called this brave and kind Chinese woman "the Virgin Mary" and thanked her for everything she did for the Belgian people.
"The Road to Qian Xiuling" in Belgium
In 1945, World War II ended. At this time, Qian Xiuling was already a household name in Belgium. In order to let future generations remember her charity, a avenue in the city center was named "钱夫人路", so that Belgians will always remember this China. The name of the person and her contribution to saving lives.
Text/文史旺旺
